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Leconfield, Yorkshire

Leconfield  /  Normandy Barracks
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3 December 1936
31 January 1977
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AIRFIELD SITE : Balloon Filling Hut


AIRFIELD SITE : Fire Tender Shed


AIRFIELD SITE : Gymnasium & Chancel


AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar / Type C Aircraft Shed


AIRFIELD SITE : Night Flying Equipment Shed


BUILDING 41 : Hangar / Type C Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 72 : Control Tower


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Catherine


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Catherine Churchyard

Buried and Remembered in this Churchyard are:
Sergeant William Newton Baker (Royal Air Force)
Podporucznik Wladyslaw Balon (Polish Air Force)
Junior Technician K Bartholomew (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader Eric Percy William Bocock (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer G J Brand (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Joseph Murray Brockbank (Royal Air Force)
Porucznik Jan Bury-Burzymski (Polish Air Force)
Sergeant Kenneth Francis Cadd (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant A E Camm (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Kevin Desmond Cox (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer William Arthur Dakers (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Douglas James Davey
Senior Aircraftman G Denson (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant P H Drapher (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader I H Elshaw (Royal Air Force)
Air Vice Marshall John Robert Andre Embling (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Raymond Evans (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant J C Ewens (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader H J Fitz (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant C P Ford (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Gordon Foster (Royal Air Force)
Maurice Foster
Leading Aircraftman B J Freeman (Royal Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman F Gledhill (Royal Air Force)
Corporal S E Greetham (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer John Langston Haggerty (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Norman Dickinson Hennessy
Flight Lieutenant N J Hooper (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer J Hope (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant K J Jones (Royal Air Force)
​Kapral Withold Jozef Knott (Polish Air Force)
Pilot Officer Thomas William McClure Leckie (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
​Pilot Officer Geoffrey Patrick Mandeville (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant W R Mason (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer D McAfee (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Charles Patrick Dugald McMillan (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant J J Mullan (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant J S Murray (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer D M Nicholls (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant R Pritchard (Royal Air Force)
Warrant Officer Frederick Curry Punshon (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Wilmot Thomas Purdy (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Kapral Franciszek Radzimski (Polish Air Force)
Starszy Szeregowiec Antoni Rossochacki (Polish Air Force)
Sergeant Bernard Rinian Roy Rutherford (Royal Australian Air Force)
Corporal P J Seaman (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant R Smith (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Robert Archer Smith (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Master Navigator B H L Sterland (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant R F Stevens (Royal Air Force)
Junior Technician R Surtees (Royal Air Force)
Porucznik Feliks Fryderyk Szyszka (Polish Air Force)
Flying Officer I Tacchi (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Andrew Albert Taylor (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Sergeant H Walpole  (Royal Air Force)
Chief Technician F Walsh (Royal Air Force)
Humphrey Fairclough Watson
Sergeant R J H Willsher (Royal Air Force)
​Flight Lieutenant S V Wyles (Royal Air Force)
Sierzant Jerzy Stanislaw Zielenski (Polish Air Force)

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Leconfield Memorial


MISCELLANEOUS : Gloster Meteor T.7 (WH132)

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